Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-04
STATEsMEN'S HATS.
A Look at the Head Gear of the
Leading Public Men.
From the Utica Daily 05serc&r.

acteristics, one II he Will look the man
over from heel to crown he can tell as
much about him from his dress as from
his physiognomy. Take President Cleve-
| land and note the way he wears his tall,
| round silk hat, crowded down upon his
| eyes in the most determined way Imagln-
/ aole. and you can see his ihdomitable VIII
shining out through his head gear. Ex-
! Attorney General Bre wster's white SILK
! plugs with their nap an inch long sho"
him to be the fUssy old style gentleman OF
! the past.
Secretary Whitney is called by some
| the dude OF the Cabinet. His bat is
| broad brimmed silk one Of the latest
| style. 1t is covered with a mourning
band, and be wears IL well down UPON his
distingue head. Secretary Endicntt also
wears silk hat, but his New England
head makes it look az cold as Massachu-
setts, and it has not the air Of good fel-
! lowship OF Garland's SLOUGH nor Post
master General Villas high nat. Bayard
! wears pearl gray tile in the summer,
| and stylish silk one in the winter. He
| Ia still in mourning for the deaths which
| have laSely occurred in his family. and
bis hats, like his dress, are always i'm
| maculate.
One OF the queerest hats in Washing
| ton is that OF Civil Service Commissioner
Edgertou. 1t is a straight. broad br M
med silk plug of the vintage Of l849. and
| the picture OF Edgerton as be walks the
streets OF Washington is that OF au ele-
! gautly dressed statesman Of Jackson's
! day. He says he finds be is In style ABOUT
every ten years. and that hatters keep the
same blocks and bring out the same styles
| about SO often.
Chace OF Rhode island, the Quaker
Senator, wears broad brim, and tue cut
OF his coat is after the style of the So
ciety Of Friends. Price, Arthur's
! Indian Commissioner, wore an ex-
IRENE hat OF this kind, but he usually
had it made OF felt rather than black
| silk.
Ben Butler has new hat every time he
| comes TO Washington, and his cooked
| eye assumes different air under every
one OF them. Sometimes be will wear a
black SLOUGH; at others stiff, low-crown-
ed white ielt, with Grim as broad as that
| OF Texan cowboys, and with a big
black Dand coming nearly to the crown.
| l have seen him in black SLOUGH, and
the other day he appeared here with q
beaver fur overcoat drawn around his fat
old grandmotberly frame, and with fat
| tur cap with wide rim upon his bald
head.
= Senator ingalls, is one OF the best Dress
ed men in Washington, and his black
silk headgear Is the envy of his brother
| Senators. 1 saw him the other night, and
he had come out for the first time in a fur
cap. 1t was tall one of the finest seal
skin, and with Ingalls, long Oyercoat,
reaching to his feet, it made him look
like Russian count in the depth OF win
ter. Joe Mcdonald has been wearing a
fur cap this winter, and he has laid aside
his statesman's plug for the summer sea-
son.
Speaking OF the statesman's style OF
| wearing his hat, Senator Evarts is said to
have it 10 perfection, and, indeed, there
are those VINO say he is the author OF the
style. 1t is to my mind very poor sty lie,
and it consists OF balancing the hat on
the back of the head so that Ii the
wearer has bangs they will show forth in
all their beauty. Evarts never wears his
black silk hat in any other way. Senator
Payne covers mis- head alter the same
fashion.
Dan voorhees, wears a silk plug, and he
| has one OF he largest heads in the Senate.
His hat is "a 10 size. He always keeps
| 1t well brushed, and ne has a great many
has presented to him. BE is fond OF bet
ting hats with his friends during the cleo
tions. and be wins from two to four dur
ing every campaign.
Senator Sherman wears tall hat, we'll
brushed. Pniietus Sawyer, short and
tat, covers his bald head with derby,
and his colleague, the brilliant John G.
Spooner, wears a SLOUGH, and don't
appear to care whether school keeps or
not.
Senator Vest wears a black SLOUGH,
which he pulls down over his eyes, max
ing him look very belligerent as he walk s
about the hotels; and another man OF
this same style is Representa- i've Joe
Cannon OF Illinois, who often has the air
OF the bad man from Bitter Creek.
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his big gray head with black derby, and
NJ. e. Butler wears jaunty brown felt OF
the same style as that OF Don Cameron.
Leland stanford wears tall, black silk
tile, and his income Is large enough to
give him a dollar bill every month for
every hair under it.
Eli Salisbury or Delaware, Who ia over
six feet tall and hardly more than eight
| cen inches from shoulder to shoulder
makes himself look taller and thinner by
plug hat The two Re of the Senate
RIddleberger and Ransom, cover their
heads with black SLOUGH hats which they
wear With military air. Malone usually
weare cream colored SLOUGH, which he
turns up carefully at the sides and which
be wears az jauntiIy as a bril- adler on
dress parade. BE is particular about his
hat and often brushesit.
Senator Platt of Connecticut wears q
SLOUGH. He is tall and slender, and when
he puts his hat on he draws himself IN
and looks comfortable, as though he'd
put on his oyercoat and had no fear OF the
cold.
Senator Edmunds mas lately taken to
wearing soft, light, crush travelling hat.
1t weighs about five ounces, and has little
curled-up rim, and is blue III color. | saw
him out riding with it upon his head one
day. He also wears tall silk hat, aud
in his last campaign for tho senate he
dOnned the Democratic derby.
Sam Randall sometimes wears slouch,
but more often black elk, with a good
sized black band around it. Randall
wears his hat good deal like the Presi-
dent does bic, and he makes fine APP
pearance with his classic features and his
bright black eyes shining out from under
| its rim.
Col. Cooper OF Ohio puts his hat on his
head In "A Delligerent way, and be looks
like a cavalry leader off duty, while Gen.
Joe Wheeler, the dasbing cavalryman OF
the Confederacy, wears a soft, little
SLOUGH, which he pulls down over his
eyes, turns up this way and that, and
wears la all shapes Imaginable. Some
times be tucks It under bis arm, and |
saw him at Senator Miller's funeral lean
ing against the door OF the Senate in a
brown overcOat, with his hat held In
this way. He cares but little for appear
ances, and you would not take him, from
his clothes, for the brilliant man that